1 inch a week is pretty much the general advice for veggie gardens and lawns and so on.
I'm not watering ours (yet?), and i keep the grass long (highest setting on the mower). I think the longer grass blade means the plant can focus its resources on growing deeper roots.
The thing that comes to my mind about sprinkler measuring is how regular the spray pattern is and how much splash would be caused. The device i've been using in the garden is more of a jet or fountain from the head. I imagine right in the most intense end of the spray, i'd need to take care to have high enough sides to get the splash, but not so high that i was cutting off the flow. I might consider something like a 9x9 square baking pan. Your sprinkler system may be very different!
Another possibility that i would more likely use is putting my sprinkler in a big bucket, run for five to ten minutes, get the flow rate, and then figure that distributed over the area. I've you've got an installed irrigation system, that won't work.
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I'm not watering ours (yet?), and i keep the grass long (highest setting on the mower). I think the longer grass blade means the plant can focus its resources on growing deeper roots.
The thing that comes to my mind about sprinkler measuring is how regular the spray pattern is and how much splash would be caused. The device i've been using in the garden is more of a jet or fountain from the head. I imagine right in the most intense end of the spray, i'd need to take care to have high enough sides to get the splash, but not so high that i was cutting off the flow. I might consider something like a 9x9 square baking pan. Your sprinkler system may be very different!
Another possibility that i would more likely use is putting my sprinkler in a big bucket, run for five to ten minutes, get the flow rate, and then figure that distributed over the area. I've you've got an installed irrigation system, that won't work.